Most users cannot identify AI bias, even in training data

https://www.psu.edu/news/bellisario-college-communications/story/most-users-cannot-identify-ai-bias-even-training-data

24•giuliomagnifico•6h ago

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DocTomoe•1h ago

If bias can only be seen by a minority of people ... is it really 'AI bias', or just societal bias?

> “In one of the experiment scenarios — which featured racially biased AI performance — the system failed to accurately classify the facial expression of the images from minority groups,”

Could it be that real people have trouble reading the facial expression of the image of minority groups?

ecocentrik•1h ago

By "real people" do you mean people who are not members of those minority groups? Or are people who can "accurately classify the facial expression of images from minority groups" not "real people"?

I hope you can see the problem with your very lazy argument.

lovemenot•1h ago

AI are not real people. Obviously. Just look at the first line to see the intended line of argument.

It's not about which people per se, but how many, in aggregate.

eth0up•1h ago

Not to be glib, but...

Grok

jdiff•34m ago

There are, simultaneously, groups of users who believe that Grok is also distorted by a far-left bias in its training data, as well as people who feel like Grok is in perfect, unbiased balance. I think it holds even for Grok that most users fail to accurately identify bias.

eth0up•12m ago

Agreed, mostly.

Bias always feels wierd on the heads it falls upon, but is a very effective anesthetic when it falls on the heads of others.

7e•1h ago

According to research, white Americans report as happier than other groups. So I’m not sure there’s bias here, only unhappiness about that result, which AI appears to replicate via other sources.

SoftTalker•58m ago

AIs/LLMs are going to reflect the biases in their training data. That seems intuitive.

And personally, I think when people see content they agree with, they think it's unbiased. And the converse is also true.

So conservatives might think Fox News is "balanced" and liberals might think it's "far-right"

prox•19m ago

Yup it appears as neutral bias because (or when rather) it corresponds 1:1 with your belief system, which by default is skewed af. Unless you did a rigorous self inquiry and mapped your beliefs and thoroughly aware of them that’s gonna be nearly always true.

BolexNOLA•4m ago

> And personally, I think when people see content they agree with, they think it's unbiased. And the converse is also true.

One only has to see how angry conservatives/musk supporters get at Grok on a regular basis.

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